WTF Is FloFC/FloSports?

It’s an app so phone/tablet/smart tv.

Seems like they currently show a lot of Copa Italia.

$20/mth.

I’ll hold out for the Spanish.

 

What a bust. We have to pay for the right to see the national team... hard pass.... I’ll stream illegally.

 

Where do you see $20? https://www.flofc.com/plans?utm_cam...m=display&utm_source=970x90&utm_content=event is how you pay. It costs $29.99 for one month, which goes down to $12.49 per month (actually $12.50 because $149.99/12 = $12.499 going to a decimal place beyond a whole number of cents) if you pay for one year. A year costs $0.04 more than five individual months, so if you want to pay for Nations League games only you should pay by the month because they are in five or fewer months per year. When people complain that ESPN Plus isn't free, I say that ESPN Plus has more games at a cheaper price than any other sports website that charges.

FYI: This isn't the only soccer on FloSports people here care about. D.C. United gave their games to FloSports.

United announce pricing for the plans - STH & SG members will pay $5.99/mo, while the general public will pay $8.99/mo.

— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) January 8, 2019

 

Nations League is a CONCACAF TV property, so they are the ones who sold the rights. US Soccer had nothing to do with it.

 

CONCACAF outsource their sponsorship deals to Soccer United Marketing along with TV rights negotiation for events like the GC. I'm not sure if SUM is involved with this deal.

Flotrack was always a laughing stock on letsrun, track and field's equivalent of bigsoccer, with fixed cameras, no replays, and no idea who some of the runners were.

That was a few years ago.

 

What the ********

 

This guy says that the US group stage games will still be on TV through the ESPN/Fox contracts, but not the semis/final in Spring 2020.

ICYMI: @FloSports has picked up the U.S. English-language @CNationsLeague b'cast rights

Note: The 3 USMNT group stage games WILL be on US broadcast TV on USSF partners ESPN/Fox Sports

Semifinal/Final in English will only be on FloFC, even if US makes ithttps://t.co/m22g3bnwQf

— Ian Thomas (@byIanThomas) January 28, 2019

He corrected the number of group games (4) in a later tweet. There still may be regular TV on the Spanish side.

 

Yup $5 a month for most MLS games and plenty of other leagues our Yanks play in.

While ESPNs deal is amazing for those of us on BigSoccer this Flo crap is not.

 

This blows.

Hora de repasar mi español

 

Flo Sports has been in Track and field for quite a while. They also started with a pretty big following in wrestling. People generally seem to hate them. Poor quality of announcers and problems with recurring billing seem to be the biggest/most common complaints.

 

It was founded in 2005/2006 by Mark Floreani and Martin Floreani. Mark was a UTexas track and field athlete and Martin I think may have been a wrestler. They were trust fund kids I believe. Martin is no longer with them. I think they also have a pretty big swimming operation too.

 

If nobody buys it, who will illegally stream it?

 

Theres always at least 1 sucker

 

People should just brush up on their Spanish.

 

Not even. For reasons that are too complicated/stupid/Comcast-related, I only get Spanish-language broadcasts for sports channels. I cannot speak or understand the language - and it has not negatively affected my life in the least. I still have eyes, I can see where the ball is and where it's going. I don't need to be able to understand the specific variety of inane chatter from the talking heads to know what's happening.

(In fact, when it came to NFL Monday Night Football this past season, I think I was quite lucky, as the commentary was apparently bad enough to drive people insane).

As long as you understand what it means when the guy goes "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL", then you're fine.

 

Hey, that guy is awesome! He/she does it so all the rest of us don't have to.

 

FloSports also streams lots of Rugby Union matches, especially the US National Rugby Team's, both 15s and 7s.